Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real pleasure of the book is that the reader consults the scripts in search of past delights and finds a newer, steadier enjoyment. All the programs are skillfully written, paced and plotted. Each one is a mirror of small-town life and conversation. Then remembered gems begin to appear. Sheer delight-like the first time Vic refers to Sade as "Dr. Streech." Or when Vic comments on a letter from Sade's sister Bess...
...Sheer Sensual Skiing...
...your cover story "Holiday on Skis" [Dec. 25]: I do not argue with doctors who deny that the ultraviolet rays encountered while skiing have an aphrodisiac effect. However, the sheer sensual experience of the warm sun, snow spray in the face, weightless microseconds on a mogul, the symphony of wind blowing through pine forests, thrills of speed, danger and precision and not insignificantly, the form-fitting nature of ski clothing create in this skier a desire for more than a quiet evening with a good book...
Some argue that the problems on the Hill are psychological, having to do with the sheer will of Congress to make itself felt. Perhaps more than any specific set of reforms, the Congress needs only to use more fully the tools and potential it has long possessed. "Reforms are not going to make any difference unless there is the will in Congress to want to govern," contends Packwood. "We can set policy, we can take back the powers if we want. But we have said 'can't, can't, can't' so long...
THIS IS FELLINI'S Rome, no one che's, and it is no place you can go. Roma may have the trappings of documentary but it has the flesh of sheer fantasy. It has no more to do with the public, historical Rome than Fellini Satyricon had to do with Petronius...